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...introduction, Smith writes of the Kennedy family with a sometimes rueful eloquence: "As I've grown older, I have begun to marvel...at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences...Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce...
...whose assets include Chery 2; George 3 is Georgia, a woman, and Chery #3 is Chuck, a man who dresses in drag. And about halfway through the play, the disembodied voice of the Master announces, humorously, that the "play is a critical commentary on the misplaced values of the twentieth century underscored by elements of Ionescoesque absurdism...
...across the puzzle the other day in Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s new memoir, "A Life in the Twentieth Century." Schlesinger says that the game of The Lady or the Tiger became widely popular when Stockton proposed it more than a century ago. The poet Robert Browning announced that he "had no hesitation in supposing that such a princess under such circumstances would direct her lover to the tiger's door...
...high school from Clueless, populated by vacuous, bubbly, seraphic teenagers. Witherspoon is perfect for the part. Like in all Sandler movies, the funniest moments in the film are the ones that seem to come out of nowhere (i.e. the hemorrhaging clown in Billy Madison, a comedic gem of the twentieth century). Fortunately, Little Nicky is packed with these random moments, and in the end, they are what make the film a hell of a lot funnier than anything else Sandler has done in a while...
...Lower Depths sets an encouraging precedent for bringing more of Gorky's under-appreciated work to Harvard stages, as well as other twentieth century Russian drama. Strangely enough, people like...